Improved mop-head



UNITED STATES PATENT Garnica.

RUEL W. WHITNEY AND ABNER C. STOCKIN, OF SOUTH BERVCK, MAINE.

IMPROVED MOP-HEAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,703, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RUEL V. WHITNEY and ABNER C. STOCKIN, ot' South Berwick, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented an Improved Mop Head, and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specilication and represented iii the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a side view ot' a mop with our improvement; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of it.

In such drawings, A denotes the mop-handle as projecting from the middle of a bearer, B, and at right angles with suoli.

A yoke or clasp, (l, which encompasses the bearer and is formed in manner as represented, goes through the handle A, so as to be capable of bein g turned laterally from its position when directly over a-nd encompassing the bearer, as shown iii the drawings.V

A ring or collar, d, is so adapted to the haiidle and the two arms e e of the yoke as to be capable of being slid on and ottl suoli arms. When on lthe arms it will prevent the yoke from being turned off the bearer.

The mop-cloth f is placed within the yoke, and by it is held against the bearer, in manner as shown in the drawings.

Ve are aware ofthe iiiop-head described in Letters Patent- N o. 17,877, granted to James Harris, and therefore do not claim suoli, it being composed of two wire jaws applied to a handle, and operating with a roller wholly disconnected from the handle, such roller when in use being simply introduced into the inopcloth.

This mop-head not only differs from our mopfhead in construction, but holds the cloth in a manner very different from that in which it is held by the latter. In our mop-head the cloth, instead of being tir-st bent around a roller or pin and grasped by and between jaws, as it is in the mop-head ofthe said Harris, is simply bent around a part of the yoke, and is held in place thereon by being drawn by the yokeagainst one edge ot' the bearer. Besides, in Harriss mop head there is nothing which operates like, or is the equivalent for, the bearer B of our mop-liead, such bearer being permanently fixed to the end of the handle. This bearer enables iis to use but one jaw or yoke, such as is employed by Harris. With our invention the bearer is a iixture not liable to be lost.

We claim as our invention- The improved mop-head made as describedviz., of the bearer, the yoke, and the collar, constructed, arranged, and-applied together and to the handle substantially as specified.

RUEL W. WHITNEY. ABNER G. STOGKIN. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

